The last ten days had been a haze, a blur, waiting for the French bureaucracy, trying to get the body released, brought back to England.

It is told in a series of vignettes about gardening, learning the language, dealing with French bureaucracy, and struggling with writer's block.

After taking the civil service exam, in 1897 Maginot began his career in the French bureaucracy, where he would serve for the rest of his life.

You never really win with the French bureaucracy.

They focused on disrupting the French bureaucracy and military posts in addition to the transportation of rice.

The French bureaucracy had to be reorganized.

"I seriously went after that boat, but I was defeated by the French bureaucracy," he said.

French bureaucracy would have left him stateless now if he had not raised his voice in protest.

It is, as Marx said of the mid-nineteenth-century French bureaucracy, 'well-gallooned and well-fed'.

A little later, alumni of those uprisings infiltrated first the lower, then the upper reaches of the French cultural bureaucracy.